{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0081246.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0081246.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0081246.htm","text":"Chapter XI.\u2014How Jesus Made a Short Piece of Wood of the Same Length as a Longer One.\nAnd Jesus reached the age of eight years. Joseph was a master builder, 1770 and used to make ploughs and ox-yokes. And one day a rich man p. 403 said to Joseph: Master, make me a couch, both useful and beautiful. And Joseph was in distress, because the wood which he had brought 1771 for the work was too short. And Jesus said to him: Do not be annoyed. Take hold of this piece of wood by one end, and I by the other; I and let us draw it out. And they did so; and immediately he found it useful for that which he wished. And He said to Joseph: Behold, do the work which thou wishest. And Joseph, seeing what He had done, embraced Him, and said: Blessed am I, because God hath given me such a son.\nBut probably architector here is equal to \u03c4\u03ad\u03ba\u03c4\u03c9\u03bd, a carpenter.\n403:1771\nPerhaps sectum, cut, is the true reading, and not actum.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Apocrypha of the New Testament.: Chapter XI","type":"page"}